Plain Lab · planner
Undated Project Planner
Twelve project pages, twelve finance pages, twelve habit pages across eight marks, four goal pages, twelve reflection pages and dot-grid notes for the rest.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- dot
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
This book has no year printed on it and no month grid inside it. A page fills up, you turn to the next one, and the book keeps working exactly as well in its second year as its first. That is the entire idea: a planner that expires when the paper runs out, not when the calendar does.
The habit page runs eight marks across the top. Six of them are the job: invoice sent, quotation followed up, site visit logged, vendor paid, drawing filed, inbox at zero. The other two sit outside work entirely: a walk taken, something read for no professional reason. A book that only tracked the first six would be a smaller kind of useful.
Twelve finance pages, four goal pages and twelve reflection pages sit around the habit tracker, and thirty-three pages of dot-grid notes take up most of what is left, at 4.94 mm pitch. Dots suggest a line without drawing one, which is why the same page can hold a sketch, a table and a paragraph without picking a ruling in advance. None of it is dated. It waits until you open it.
What is inside
- Project
- 12pp
- For the work itself, tracked as a project rather than a to-do list.
- Finance
- 12pp
- The money side of the same work, kept separate from the habit marks.
- Habit
- 12pp
- Eight marks a day, six of them the job and two of them not.
- Goals
- 4pp
- Four pages, because a goal that needs more room than that has usually become five goals.
- Reflection
- 12pp
- Looking back on a project once it is done, not only planning the next one.
- Notes
- 33pp
- Dot grid at 4.94 mm, for a sketch, a table or a paragraph without choosing a ruling first.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Content PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning
- Fitness Programme PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning
Questions
What are the eight habit marks?
Invoice sent, Quotation followed up, Site visit logged, Vendor paid, Drawing filed, Inbox at zero, Walked outside, Read something not work.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 100 pages, 5.72 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. It starts on whatever day you open it and keeps going until the pages run out.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Dot grid, 4.94 mm pitch, thirty-five dots to the page.
How many sections does it have?
Six: project, finance, habit, goals, reflection and notes.
The final ends and consummations of actions are nothing at all to a man's nature.
